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Is the U.S. Supreme Court's Legitimacy Grounded in Performance Satisfaction and Ideology?
, 2015Bartels and Johnston have recently presented evidence suggesting that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court is grounded in the ideological preferences and perceptions of the American people. In addition, they offer experimental data purporting to show that
J. Gibson, M. J. Nelson
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The Influence of Amicus Curiae Briefs on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content
, 2015Scholars have dedicated substantial research efforts to investigating whether interest group amicus curiae briefs influence the behavior of Supreme Court justices.
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Conservatives on the supreme court [PDF]
Constitutional Political Economy, 1992 It is shown: (a) the core conservatives justices now on the Supreme Court (identified as White, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia and Kennedy) are preoccupied with the problem of the fit between their rulings and the sources of law and with the ideal of predictability; (b) a new jurisprudential approach developed by Justice Scalia is gaining acceptance ...
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A Common-Space Measure of State Supreme Court Ideology
, 2015We introduce a new method to measure the ideology of state Supreme Court justices using campaign finance records. In addition to recovering ideal point estimates for both incumbent and challenger candidates in judicial elections, the method’s unified ...
Adam Bonica, Michael J. Woodruff
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Source Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court
, 2015It is well known that the public often relies on cues or heuristics when forming opinions. At the same time, leading theories of opinion formation about the Supreme Court see such support as relatively fixed. Using a series of survey experiments, we find
T. Clark, Jonathan P. Kastellec
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Issue-Specific Opinion Change The Supreme Court and Health Care Reform
, 2015Did the Supreme Court decision in the Affordable Care Act case change public opinion about health care reform? Utilizing a multi-wave panel design with observations collected just hours before and after the Court’s decision, this study addresses macro ...
Dino P. Christenson, D. Glick
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The Supreme Court and Progressivism: Bickel and Schmidt's History of the Supreme Court
American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1987During the early twentieth century the Progressives grappled with issues that continue to confront Americans today. The Supreme Court was central to the Progressive Era's response to big business, race relations, and environmental conservation; and the interplay between Progressivism and the Court shaped the nation's experience with these issues ...
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Making the Cases “Real”: Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Cases 1953–2004
, 2015Which U.S. Supreme Court cases are deemed newsworthy enough to appear on the front page of a major newspaper? Which are covered, but do not appear on the front page, and which are not covered at all?
Todd A. Collins, Christopher A. Cooper
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